Mr. Laurent Kasper-Ansermet

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Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet was appointed as Reserve Co-Investigating Judge on 1 December 2010.

He resigned from his position effective 4 May 2012.He has most recently been a member of the Swiss Expert Pool for Civilian Peace (PEP) where he advised the Prosecutor’s office in the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL).

Prior to this he served as the Head of the Paris office for the Inquiry Commission into the United Nations Oil-For-Food Programme. Judge Kasper-Ansermet has more than 18 years’ experience serving as a prosecutor, investigating judge and a judge in Geneva, Switzerland focusing particularly on complex financial crimes and corruption.

He has also several years of experience in the banking sector after obtaining a law degree from the University of Geneva in 1978.

Since he took office at the ECCC, the Reserve International Co-Investigating Judge, out of respect for the law and the victims, has focused all his energy to continuing the judicial investigation of the highly contentious Cases 003 and 004. In addition to the field investigations that were conducted, the suspects were informed of their rights and were granted access to the case file.

The International Reserve Co-Investigating Judge, Laurent Kasper-Ansermet, disputes all of the confused allegations contained in the press release dated 26 March 2012 by the National Co-Investigating Judge, You Bunleng.&nbsp;

This public statement is made pursuant to ECCC Internal Rule 21(1)(c) to ensure that the public, and particularly the victims of the crimes under investigation, are duly informed of ongoing ECCC proceedings.

In his previous press release dated 6 December 2011, the International Reserve Co-Investigating Judge emphasized his commitment to keep the public sufficiently informed about major developments in Case Files 003 and 004.

Appointed to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia &nbsp;(ECCC) for the period of the proceedings by Royal Decree dated 30 November 2010, with the approval of the Supreme Council of Magistracy of the Kingdom of Cambodia, and sworn in on 21 February 2011, the international reserve Co-Investigating Judge is called upon under the law to replace his predecessor and to assume the duties performed by the latter up until his unexpected resignation effective 31 October 2011 (Articles 12, 23, 26 and 27 of the ECCC Law).&nbsp;